Sample SEL Classroom Lesson Plan

Learning Basic Taekwondo to Address Student Health & Wellness.

Contact: VEC EDU CEO Dr. Theresa Ferg

Theresa.Ferg@visuospatialeducationcenter.com

taekwondo@gallerysanisabel.com

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August 13, 2024

Classroom Lesson Plan: Authors Dr. Theresa Ferg, Curriculum Development, Paula Robben, CCAP

Emotional Coach and Megan Bonde, Ed.S CCC-SLP

Curricular Design: VEC EDU Instructional Unit: Objective Emotional Approach©

Rationale: Health and Wellness, movement, exercise, mental focus, affective symmetry gauging (ASG)

response and visuospatial sequential working memory (VSWM).

Today students are in a post-pandemic environment at school and home, which has extended the

social and emotional learning (SEL) difficulties shown to be at the foundation of the lack of student

interest for learning. At the advent of the forced COVID quarantine in February 2020, teachers, parents

and students were expected to interface via digital technology. In many ways this change of forced online

learning did have positive outcomes. However, overall, school performances in both literacy and

mathematics have declined in the U.S. At the Colorado department of Education (CDE) the following is

an excerpt from the Health and Wellness Standards: “Health and Physical education (HPE) prepare

students to function optimally as students, global citizens, and workers who demonstrate personal

responsibility for one’s health and fitness through an active, healthy lifestyle that fosters a lifelong

commitment to wellness. These standards encourage physical literacy, which is the ability to move with

competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit

the healthy development of the whole person.” Post- Covid students need to experience again the social

interactions both in the classroom and the gym benefits of health and physical education to regain their

sense of self-efficacy for social interaction in a peer group.

Title: Addressing Student PHE and Self-efficacy

Topic: Learning Basic Taekwondo (a martial art)

Target Age: K-12 grades

Time: 45 minutes twice a week

Subject: Colorado Department of Education (CDE) Emotion Health and Wellness (EHW) content

standard #3 following Social, Emotional Learning (SEL)

Ideal Number of Learners: 25 per class

Preparation: What advance preparation if any, is required of the teacher for this lesson?

1. Review the history of General Choi Hong Hi, the Founder of Taekwondo.

2. Review the information of the Objective Emotional Approach© for learning, this is provided for

the teacher from VEC EDU upon request, which includes additional SEL curriculum.

3. Review (Paula Robben’s select SEL suggestions for teacher/student interactions)

Solution: To discover the opposite of anxiety and negative expectations, which students and

teachers have been experiencing Post-Covid. We need to engage in calm and relaxed interactions.

A calm and relaxed state is where the emotions can support the work required to accomplish

expectations more freely. This is also where the brain can engage while feeling inspired.

Grounded physical activity while sharing space with other students making the same movements

to achieve a unison, a sense of the social group, is an excellent source of SEL and HPE for

students of any age.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:

1. Learn the mythology of another culture i.e. Korean.

2. Learn about the emotional benefits of feeling comfortable with emotions, movements and

social interaction.

3. Learn about how to gain confidence for physical self-protection activities.

SEL & Life Skills demonstrated in this lesson:

1. Critical thinking about the importance of the effect of positive emotions and how to mitigate the

negative aspects with positive self-efficacy action through the affective symmetry gauging (ASG)

response.

2. Improve creative visualization ability through experiential learning of the martial art.

3. Increase the use of the visuospatial sequential memory (VSWM) using integrated sensory

modalities by learning the Taekwondo forms and coordinated movements and practice the forms

and patterns learned in class.

Resource Materials for Teachers:

Videos on General Choi Hong Hi and the history of Taekwondo.

Practice the forms and patterns learned in class.

Review of the curriculum design of the Objective Emotional Approach© for improved

visualization.

Accommodations:

Meghan Bonde CEO of Team Neurodiversity Eds.; Bilingual CCC-SLP

Meghan to provide comments and suggestions for neuro-diverse students upon request.